Tahira Kashyap on depression: While Ayushmann Khurrana was shooting, I would spend hours at night crying

Ayushmann Khurrana’s wife and filmmaker Tahira Kashyap have been the embodiment of strength and surviving spirit. She has always been vocal about her battle with cancer and the importance of good health. Once again she has come forward to emphasize the significance of mental health and her journey with it.

According to her interview with Mid-Day Tahira opened up about how caner has bought her the realization of the importance of good mental health. She said she never treated her body, mind, and soul as one entity. She always thought physical health was important, and “mental toh kuch hota hi nahin hai.” So, she exercised a lot. “But I think [cancer] was a manifestation of the negativity that I had been harbouring,” she said.

She said that she was in depression and would cry herself to sleep while Ayushmann was out shooting for his films. She said, “Had I gone to a doctor, I would have been declared clinically depressed. But I chose to cry every night instead of visiting one. I was living a dual life. My husband was shooting; I would spend hours at night crying, and put up the front of a happy person in the morning so that I didn’t look like a loser before my children, who were aged two and four then.”

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Tahira said that her health has improved a lot since she started practicing Buddhist chanting and taking care of her overall health. Tahira had undergone a preventive double mastectomy last year but she was diagnosed with early-stage in breast cancer. She has undergone treatment for it and is now successfully recovering.

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